Re: Report multi-post spammers here

Just nailed another one - 40 posts in less than an hour - 11 in Deville alone. "guauthementmark". 6 to 10 word snippets of previous messages as a "post".

Whenever you log into a Forum - say, Seville, look at the column of recent posts/posters. If you see a weird string of threads with a recent post from the same username, check it out and report one of the posts.

This mode of posting multiple gibberish posts within a short time frame meets the description of the hackers who have been bugging the sites of large financial institutions. The hack is designed to overload the servers and take down the site.

Re: Report multi-post spammers here

IP can be blocked. I am not a fan of it because IP addresses are highly dynamic these days. Imagine trying to log in from your phone only to find out you can't because some spammer used his phone.

Your probably thinking of the IP address that changes when it goes from one wifi router to another. The IP address that I am thinking about is the one that the modem uses, which is not dynamic. It is the one that is seen by "us" or the world.

A friend of mine has two wifi routers, but one modem. If he connects his iPad to one wifi router. It's given an IP address to that wifi router. When he connects to the other wifi router it's given another IP address. However, the modem that connects to the outside world stays the same.

Re: Report multi-post spammers here

I am not talking about internal IP addresses (192.168.x.x) I am talking about your IP address on the internet. Everytime you shut your phone off and turn it back on, you have a new ip address. Even at home, if you reboot your router, you have the potential of getting a different IP address. Unless you pay for a static IP address, which most people don't.